Badminton is a

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and

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Blaenau Gwent Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. It borders the Local government in Wales, unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly County Borough ...

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, with the community being created in 2010.

Community

The community of Badminton was created from part of the larger community of Beaufort in 2010 following ''The Blaenau Gwent (Communities) Order 2010''. The community includes the Newchurch and Glyncoed area of

Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale (; ) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a ...

(including Badminton Grove) and the area to the west surrounding Bryn-serth Road. The

Rassau Rassau, sometimes The Rassau (Gwenhwyseg ), is a village and Community (Wales), community located in the historic counties of Wales, historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Gwent (c ...

and (new) Beaufort communities lie to the north, with Ebbw Vale North immediately to the south. The Ebbw Fawr river flows through Glyncoed in the eastern half of the community. The boundaries of the Badminton community are coterminous with the electoral ward of the same name. According to the 2011 census the population of the Badminton ward was 3,110 (with 556 under the age of 18). Badminton has only one

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in the area, namely Church House, a mid 19th-century two storey building which was probably contemporary to the (now demolished) St John's Church. The

Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan Privy Council (United Kingdom), PC (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his t ...

Memorial Stones are within the community boundaries (in the Beaufort electoral ward). Three smaller stones (representing the three towns of his constituency, Ebbw Vale, Rhymney and Tredegar) surround a larger stone representing Bevan.

Governance

Badminton is in the Blaenau Gwent parliamentary constituency for elections to the UK parliament and a constituency of the same name for elections to the Welsh Assembly government. The Badminton ward elects two county councillors to

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council () is the governing body for Blaenau Gwent, one of the Subdivisions of Wales, Principal Areas of Wales. History The borough council was created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as a lower-tier Dist ...

. At the May 2017 elections the ward elected two

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councillors, Clive Meredith and Gregory Paulsen. Paulsen took a seat from the Labour Party and helped the Independents win a majority on the county council.

References

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